Fedora Core 5: Automounting usb disk on boot
by Walter Garcia-Fontes
I reformatted a 250 USB gb disk (LACIE) to ext3 and it works fine. It
mounts when I start my gnome session, but if I reboot the disk is not
mounted. I labelled it "Backup" so it always mounts as
/media/Backup. I read around and found a suggestion to add the
following line to my /etc/fstab:
LABEL=Backup /media/Backup ext3 auto,hotplug,defaults 1 2
I did this and the boot process would stop and enter in a loop and
freeze. I had to boot from a Ubuntu Live CD and change the fstab file
manually to get back my fedora.
What is wrong with this line and how can I mount the Usb disk before
starting a gnome session?
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17 years, 4 months
Disable Desktop Effects from terminal
by redhatdude＠bellsouth.net
Hi,
I run my FC6 on a headless computer and connect to it via vnc. After
upgrading it's ram and connecting to it, something changed and the
windows had no bars to move them around. I realized that Desktop
Effects were enable and I couldn't disable it.
I tried gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' --
type bool false and it didn't work. I had to get a monitor and a
keyboard to do it in front of the computer with its mouse.
For the next time this happens to me, what else can I do to prevent
having to get a monitor?
Thanks,
EJ
17 years, 4 months
Fedore Core 6 installer disks and raid10 personality
by S Murthy Kambhampaty
Starting the installer from either disk1 or the rescue disk, I find that the raid10 personality is not loaded. Is there a way to load this personality, instead of stacking raid 1 on two raid0 stripes?
Thanks,
Murthy
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17 years, 4 months
A dream of a Red hat linux for desktop PC ?
by Wong Kwok-hon
Hello!
Would Red hat Fedora Core be a Desktop OS link Ubuntu that provide a
longer life period and not be testing version?
Because Ubuntu born be a desktop function and based on debain linux for free.
Red hat become a business version excepted like we using Fedora Core
and hasn't a long life time. Every version release and we need to
perform a clear install to make sure a good functionality.
So... Is it a dream of Red Hat ? Do Fedora Core become a new taste of
food and we tested it first?
I felt disappointed that the fedoralegacy.org is shutdown because a
last official free version Red hat 9.0 also stopped in maintenance...
So is there any Free lunch in Red hat ?
Wong Kwok Hon
17 years, 4 months
VMWare: not seeing USB devices
by Dotan Cohen
On FC6 on a Dell laptop I have VMWare server installed, and it runs a
Windows XP Home Edition VM. Although USB devices (printers, memory
sticks) work fine in FC6, the VM cannot see them. When I look in
Removable Media -> USB in VMWare, there is nothing there. I tried with
my printer, my memory stick, and my Dell Axim x50v. lsusb does in fact
show the devices.
Note that all these devices work fine in VMWare on a neighboring
Kubuntu desktop, with one caveat: a USB device is seen only after an
additional USB device is connected, and only the first device shows.
That means that if I want to use my USB printer, I must turn on the
printer, then inset my memory stick. Only then does VM see the printer
(and it still doesn't see the memory stick). So I know that VMWare has
problems with USB, but at least it works on the kubuntu desktop.
Dotan Cohen
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17 years, 4 months
Do I need to reinstall?
by Mark Fraser
I've got the feeling that something on my install isn't quite right. I
tried to install ndiswrapper which went ok, but when I tried to follow the
instructions some things weren't quite as they should be.
First of all where as I'm told I should be able to type just ndiswrapper
into a console window, I have to type /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper same goes for
iwconfig for which I have to type /sbin/iwconfig and I still can't seem to
do a scan.
If a reinstall isn't required is there something I can do to check my
install out to see what is wrong?
17 years, 4 months
FC5 yum update Missing Dependency: kdemultimedia >= 6:3.5.6
by Clodoaldo Neto
FC5 yum update Missing Dependency: kdemultimedia >= 6:3.5.6
# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
...
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree to pack into
transaction set.
kdemultimedia-extras-nonf 100% |=========================| 12 kB 00:02
---> Package kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree.i386 0:3.5.6-3.lvn5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for pinfo to pack into transaction set.
pinfo-0.6.9-3.fc5.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 9.7 kB 00:00
---> Package pinfo.i386 0:0.6.9-3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for akode-extras to pack into transaction set.
akode-extras-2.0.1-3.lvn5 100% |=========================| 4.1 kB 00:00
---> Package akode-extras.i386 0:2.0.1-3.lvn5.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: kdemultimedia >= 6:3.5.6 for package:
kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kdemultimedia >= 6:3.5.6 is needed by
package kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree
Regards,
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17 years, 4 months
phpmyadmin for FC6
by Edward S.P. Leong
Dear All,
Which version of phpMyadmin are you using with FC6 ?
Edward.
17 years, 4 months
Athlon 64 X2
by Kwan Lowe
Just finished building out my new Athlon 64 X2 machine and wanted to share my results:
Hardware
Motherboard was an Asus M2R32-MVP. I had many issues with stability until I updated
the BIOS. Since then it's been stable as a rock. This board comes with an SB600 hard
drive controller, VIA Firewire, Marvell Gig NIC.
For the hard drive controller I first tried with the following kernel params:
all-generic-ide pci=nommconf
This allowed FC6_X64 to see the drives in LegacyIDE mode. I added a second hard
drive and configured a RAID1 set using the Asus tools. FC6 could no longer see the
drive (now part of a RAID set) until I used:
pci=nomsi
Then everything worked beautifully.
Software
No real issues. I installed the xen kernel. The virtual machine console is
beautiful. The only glitch I had was trying to get a 32bit FC6 install to work as a
para-virt. I ended up having to use the FC6_64 which so far has not complained. Oh,
and the mouse pointer is doubled up inside the graphical console. It seems to track
differently than the host. It works but is clumsy.
fedora-ds didn't seem to be available..
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17 years, 4 months
nfs4 kernel hang when using nautilus
by Anthony Joseph Messina
i use nfs4 automounts to access servers on my lan. occasionally, when i
try to connect to an nfs4 share using nautilus, i get the following.
i'm wondering how figure out how to fix this issue and if anyone else
sees this. i am using 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6. thanks in advance for any
help. -anthony
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000018
printing eip:
f915299c
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
last sysfs file: /class/net/eth0/carrier
Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl i915 drm autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap
bluetooth sunrpc dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod video sbs i2c_ec button
battery asus_acpi ac ipv6 lp joydev snd_intel8x0(F)(U)
snd_ac97_codec(F)(U) snd_ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy(F)(U) snd_seq_oss(F)(U)
snd_seq_midi_event(F)(U) snd_seq(F)(U) snd_seq_device(F)(U)
snd_pcm_oss(F)(U) snd_mixer_oss(F)(U) snd_pcm(F)(U) sg snd_timer(F)(U)
snd(F)(U) i2c_i801 soundcore ide_cd iTCO_wdt snd_page_alloc(F)(U)
i2c_core parport_pc tg3 cdrom parport usblp serio_raw pcspkr usb_storage
ata_piix libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:[<f915299c>] Tainted: GF VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 #1)
EIP is at nfs_update_inode+0xb0/0x65a [nfs]
eax: 00000000 ebx: 000081b4 ecx: 000081b4 edx: 00008000
esi: ef6c6580 edi: f1b414b0 ebp: f094f758 esp: dbee9de8
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process umount.nfs4 (pid: 19406, ti=dbee9000 task=f15383f0
task.ti=dbee9000)
Stack: c17f08b8 ecfbd2e8 00000004 00000000 f15383f0 c0439965 dbee9e00
dbee9e00
f1b414b0 f094f610 c062597d c0431551 ecfbd280 f094f758 f1b414b0
f094f7c8
f094f758 f9153f17 f1b41400 00000000 ecfbd280 f916128c f1b41400
f29533d0
Call Trace:
[<f9153f17>] nfs_post_op_update_inode+0x2a/0x39 [nfs]
[<f916128c>] nfs4_proc_delegreturn+0x12c/0x181 [nfs]
[<f916babd>] nfs_do_return_delegation+0xf/0x1d [nfs]
[<f91516e4>] nfs_dentry_iput+0x13/0x3e [nfs]
[<c048482c>] shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree+0x1c2/0x213
[<c04856c1>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2e/0x3a
[<c04772d8>] generic_shutdown_super+0x19/0xdf
[<c04773d4>] kill_anon_super+0x9/0x30
[<f9154a61>] nfs_kill_super+0xc/0x14 [nfs]
[<c0477469>] deactivate_super+0x57/0x6a
[<c0489172>] expire_mount_list+0xe9/0x120
[<c04891db>] shrink_submounts+0x32/0xad
[<c0489df9>] sys_umount+0xfb/0x22f
[<c0489f44>] sys_oldumount+0x17/0x1a
[<c040404b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<00754402>] 0x754402
=======================
Code: 20 0f b7 5d 28 89 c8 89 da 25 00 f0 00 00 81 e2 00 f0 00 00 39 c2
0f 85 ac 04 00 00 8b 85 c0 00 00 00 8b b0 a8 01 00 00 8b 40 38 <3b> 68
18 75 52 83 c7 44 89 7c 24 2c 8b 7c 24 20 8d 46 74 89 44
EIP: [<f915299c>] nfs_update_inode+0xb0/0x65a [nfs] SS:ESP 0068:dbee9de8
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